The family of Walter Scott, a black South Carolina man shot and killed by a police officer last April, has reached a $6.5 million settlement with city officials in North Charleston, S.C.
According to The Wall Street Journal, more police officers in America have been prosecuted over fatal on-duty shootings in 2015 than in any year going back a decade.
After a 100-mph chase heading south on the northbound side of the 215 Freeway, Southern California police deputies fatally shot a man wanted on suspicion of a home-invasion robbery, BuzzFeed News reports.
On Thursday, a police officer in Portsmouth, Virginia was fired and taken into custody after a grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder over the April shooting death unarmed black teen, NBC News reports.
According to a Texas sheriff, investigators are reviewing a second video of a San Antonio man who was shot and killed by police while appearing to surrender on Friday, one that shows what they believe to be a knife in his hand.
St. Louis’ chief medical examiner said Friday that an 18-year-old man shot by police died from a bullet that entered the middle of his back, the New York Times reports. Police said they shot Mansur Ball-Bey after he pointed a gun at officers.
On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Baltimore Police Officer Wesley Cagle with attempted first-degree murder, accusing Cagle of standing over an unarmed suspect who had been shot multiple times, calling the victim a “piece of shit” and firing a bullet into his groin.
A former Fairfax County police officer was charged with second-degree murder on Monday, almost two years after he killed an unarmed man as he stood with his hands raised in the doorway of his home, The Washington Post reports.
Last night, a security company released surveillance footage purportedly showing some of the final minutes of Christian Taylor, the Angelo State football player shot and killed by police in Arlington, Texas on Friday.
According to The Guardian, American police killed 118 people in July—the deadliest month this year. At least 20 of those people were unarmed; 106 died from gunfire. Two died after being shocked with Tasers; two died after being struck by police vehicles. Eight died after altercations in police custody.
Two University of Cincinnati police officers who witnessed fellow cop Ray Tensing fatally shoot unarmed black driver Sam DuBose will not face criminal charges. Officers Phillip Kidd and David Lindenschmidt gave accounts of the shooting that turned out to be inconsistent with the footage from Tensing’s body camera. A…
Despite efforts by the city of Gardena, California to suppress the footage, a video showing officers killing an unarmed, seemingly confused man was made public on Tuesday, the L.A. Times reports.
On Friday, an Ohio woman sought aid from a police officer who subsequently shot her 4-year-old niece while attempting to shoot their charging family dog, the New York Daily News reports.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced on Monday that it is opening a formal inquiry into the sheriff’s office that oversaw Robert C. Bates, the 73-year-old reserve deputy who shot and killed Eric Harris in April, the Associated Press reports.
Police say an Oklahoma man was shot and killed on Friday after he attacked the state troopers who had just rescued him from rising floodwaters, the Associated Press reports.
When a Florida man told his girlfriend he planned to kill himself, she called the St. John’s County Sheriff’s Office for help. He’s “threatened to kill himself twice now; what do I do and who do I call?” she asked the 911 operator, adding “He recently lost his job, in addition to he’s also been drinking.”
In Sept. 2013, Dontrell Stephens was shot four times by a West Palm Beach, Fla., sheriff’s deputy, allegedly for running away from law enforcement. But newly released dashcam footage of the shooting, which left Stephens paralyzed from the waist down, shows he was just riding his bike and talking on his cell phone when…
The 73-year-old volunteer deputy who shot and killed Eric Harris after mistakenly drawing his gun instead of his Taser was charged with second-degree manslaughter on Monday, The New York Times reports.
According to a police recording obtained by the Guardian, North Charleston police officer Michael Slager laughed and talked about his "adrenaline pumping" immediately after shooting Walter Scott last Saturday.
On Friday, authorities released footage of the final moments of Eric Courtney Harris, the unarmed Oklahoma man shot and killed by a Tulsa County reserve deputy who claims he mistakenly fired his gun instead of his Taser.
